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Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 17:12:00 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [R4P] Re: Robotics coming to U.S. ports, says tech exec
You will also find that modern freighters use only a small crew of maybe
half a dozen to cross oceans now. We need to think about the education for
a new generation, perhaps represented by the babies born now, the first
generation which will not need to work to live.
Z
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Roland Sheppard wrote:
> [ What this article (the Journal of Commerce is a West Coast shipping
> industry newspaper) does not mention is that the technology exists to load and
> unload container ships completely remotely; workers hunched over the keyboard of
> computers located anywhere in the world can control the entire operation. The
> contract accepted by the ILWU allows this. - Howard ]
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> Robotics coming to U.S. ports, says tech exec
>
> Updated 9:30 a.m. ET, Mon Apr 26, 2004
>
> By Bill Mongelluzzo
> The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINE
>
> SAN FRANCISCO -- Rising labor costs and growing container traffic could lead
> some U.S. ports to incorporate unmanned robotic handling technology in the
> next five years, a German equipment maker predicts.
>
>
> Reiner Bittner, senior project manager of terminal systems at Gottwald Port
> Technology in Dusseldorf, Germany, told the Navis World conference here over
> the weekend that it will likely take an entrepreneur bold enough to invest the
> millions of dollars required to implement new technology to improve dockside
> productivity and reduce labor costs, but robotics will happen in the U.S. port
> idustry.
> (schedules <http://www.joc.com/gta/quicksearch.shtml> )
>
> Robotic equipment is already in use at Europe Container Terminals in
> Rotterdam and Container Terminal Altenwerder in Hamburg, Germany, Bittner said.
>
> While dockworkers still operate the gantry cranes that lift containers on and
> off vessels and marine clerks oversee operations from a centrallocation, the
> automation at European terminals is found in
> the container yards, where unmanned stacking cranes operated by software
> developed by Navis LLC of Oakland, load containers on robotic "automated guided
> vehicles," or yard trucks, for transport to gantry cranes alongside vessels.
>
> During slack periods, the automated cranes are programmed for "housekeeping,"
> such as re-stacking containers so the boxes are in order for the next vessel
> call.
>
> Gottwald built the 270 automated guided vehicles that are in use in Rotterdam
> and Hamburg. ECT is still using all 220 of the unmanned yard trucks that were
> introduced more than 10 years ago. They have logged 55,000 hours of work,
> Bittner said.
>
> Bittner pointed out that the term 'unmanned' is a bit of an exaggeration
> since a marine clerk using a joystick in the control tower must, by European
> safety laws, be employed to lower the container for the last several inches until
> it is securely mounted on the automated guided vehicle. However, a single clerk
> can operate multiple unmanned cranes. Gottwald has manufactured more than 90
> automated stacking cranes.
>
> Most terminal operators in Europe and the U.S. have resisted the multimillion
> dollar investment in robotics and software, but Bittner said that as the cost
> of labor in Europe increases and exceeds the cost of technology, more
> terminals will invest in robotics, probably in the next few years.
>
> Implementing robotics will be more problematic in the U.S. because of fierce
> resistance from longshore unions on both coasts. Bittner predicted that the
> first use of robotics in the U.S. will occur in the next five years. It may take
> longer in Asia, he added, because labor costs there are still relatively low.
>
> Bittner said that while resistance to robotics by labor is to be expected,
> longshoremen should also realize that automation creates a need for highly
> skilled dockworkers who are even more valuable to the operation, he said.
>
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